I found a way to work around it. Mike's comment about the IndexTools code maybe taking over some link handlers got me thinking.
In the chance this helps someone else someday, here is what my links look like: <ul id="file_list"> <li><a href="5" onclick="javascript:return false;">File Number 5</a></ li> etc, etc... </ul> Here is the jQuery I started with: $j("#filelist a").click(function() { fileID = $j(this).attr("href"); etc, etc... }); ...and here is what ended up working... $j("#filelist li").click(function() { fileID = $j(this).children('a').attr("href"); }); Note that whenever jQuery tried to use 'a' for the click event, it bombed because of the tracking code. Adding the click event to the 'li' got around this. Not exactly the fix I was looking for, but it worked just the same. Thanks for the responses. AJ